b. Data from the open-ended item questionnaire
Besides containing closed-ended statements, the questionnaire also consists of several open-ended items by which the students could share their
opinions about how the web helped them to improve their writing ability and how s
ignificant their learning progress improvement was in the course. The students‟ complete answers of the questions are presented in Appendix 7. Some important
points regarding the implementation of the web- class and the students‟ learning
achievement which emerged from the open-ended item are displayed in Table 4.6 below. The table, however, only displays a few samples of the students‟ answers.
The complete samples of the students‟ answers reflecting the students‟ learning achievement and the aspects of the Sentence Writing class can be seen in
Appendix 8. Table 4.7. Aspects of the Sentence Writing class and Students‟ Achievement
from the open-ended item of questionnaire
No. Learning
achievement Aspects of the
Sentence Writing class
Samples of Students’ Answers
1. Better
understanding of English grammar
Grammar practice It truly helps me, especially the
grammatical practice. It helps me understand English Grammar better.
Grammar material Yes, this website helps me a lot. It gives
more explanation with understandable words. So, it does not make confuse.
Clear examples Yes, i think so. so far ELTGallery helps
me to understand grammar way much better because the explanation and
examples before I do the grammatical challenges are good.
Teacher explanation in the
class I think the Web is really helping me to
improve my ability. Like the comments which the lecturer has given, and the
explanation about the materials which Mr. Calvin has told us in the beginning of
the class.
Sufficient number of exercise
The website has many assignments, it help me more to improve my English.
The web provide a lot of exercises about grammar so I can try to be more good in
grammar with the exercises. 2.
Improved sentence writing ability
Grammar practice The facility to check every sentence
makes us especially me have to be more careful to make the right sentence.
Yes, it helps me improve my ability in sentence and passage writing because
when I want to write, I will check the grammar first so that I could see whether
my sentence is right or not.
Sentence writing exercise
I think ELTGallery website has improve my writing skills especially when I write
sentences or passages. The aspects or features which help me in ELTGallery
start from grammar correctness until make 15 sentences and some passages.
Grammar material In each topic there is a clear example on
how I should write my sentence. Peer and teacher
comments Meanwhile, some comments from my
classmates or lecturer are really support my improvement about writing skill in
this course. Yes. Because if I have a mistake I now it
because my classmates and my teacher give comments and tell the right sentence
or passage or word.
3. Improved passage
writing ability Passage writing
exercise Yes. The web provides the features such
as sentence and passage writing. These features can give me exercises to improve
my writing skill.
Grammar practice Yes, it helps me improve my ability in
sentence and passage writing because when I want to write, I will check the
grammar first so that I could see whether my sentence is right or not.
Sentence writing exercise
I think ELTGallery website has improve my writing skills especially when I write
sentences or passages. The aspects or features which help me in ELTGallery
start from grammar correctness until make 15 sentences and some passages.
Selected topics Another aspect is writing a passage makes
me creative because with the chosen topics I can share what I have been
thinking, my opinion, my story, etc.
Peer and teacher comments
Meanwhile, some comments from my classmates or lecturer are really support
my improvement about writing skill in this course.
Yes. Because if I have a mistake I now it because my classmates and my teacher
give comments and tell the right sentence or passage or word.
Teacher‟s correction
Yes. By reading the comments and getting the scores of the passages, I can
learn in which part I usually made mistakes so that I can improve it in the
later passages in order to make them better.
Grammar material This web helps me to improve my skill in
writing a passage, when we choose one of the topic in this web, I can know what
are the topics about. there is some explanation in each topic, so we can learn
how to do that assignment.
Seen from the students‟ perspective, the results of the open-ended questionnaire reveal how the web-based Sentence Writing implementation
enhanced the students‟ learning achievement. They indicate the enhancements that the students achieved by learning writing in the web-based class, which are: better
understanding of English grammar, improved sentence writing ability, improved passage writing ability. As seen in the table above, moreover, there are a number
of aspects of the web- based Sentence Writing class that lead to the students‟
achievements. For better understanding of English grammar achievement, the aspects of the Sentence Writing class that support it are the grammar practice,
grammar material, clear examples, teacher‟s explanation in the class, and
sufficient number of exercise. As for the sentence writing achievement, the aspects emerged are the grammar practice, sentence writing exercise, grammar
material, as well as peer and teacher comments. Related to passage writing achievement, the Sentence Writing aspects revealed from the students‟ answers
are the passage writing exercise, grammar practice, sentence writing exercise, selected topics, peer and teacher comments, teacher‟s correction, and grammar
material. The results will be discussed further in the next section.
c. Data from the interviews